Lighting & Production Designer

Village Church is looking for a skilled and creative Lighting & Production Designer to lead the vision and direction of lighting across all Village Church locations. This role serves as the subject-matter expert in lighting and production design, helping create engaging worship environments while developing volunteers and supporting production teams across our sites.

Key Responsibilities:

Lighting Direction & Production Design

• Lead the lighting vision and production design for major services, events, and series launches, including Easter and Christmas.
• Establish lighting standards, philosophy, and best practices across all Village Church locations.
• Collaborate with creative teams and senior leadership to support cohesive visual storytelling and worship experiences.
• Partner with site teams to adapt lighting designs to different venues and technical environments.

Team Development & Training

• Equip and mentor lighting volunteers and emerging leaders across all locations.
• Provide hands-on lighting training and coaching for volunteers and Production Ministry Leads.
• Help develop lighting curriculum and training resources for staff and volunteers.
• Build strong, healthy volunteer teams that encourage growth, ownership, and leadership development.

Technical Support & Systems

• Support site teams with show files, lighting documentation, workflows, and equipment standards.
• Help maintain consistency and excellence in lighting systems and execution across all campuses.
• Work collaboratively with audio, video, and stage production teams to create integrated production experiences.

Work Week

• Part-time: averaging 16 hours per week, up to 64 hours per month maximum.
• Occasional evening and weekend work as required by events and trainings
• Regular Sundays as required by series launches and location visits.
• Flexible scheduling, agreed to in collaboration with the Production Director.
• Tuesday is an office workday unless otherwise approved by supervisor

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in live event lighting design, console programming, and lighting systems.
• A creative eye for production design and visual storytelling.
• Experience mentoring, teaching, and developing volunteers or team members.
• Ability to adapt designs across multiple venues and environments.
• Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills.
• Experience in church production, live events, concerts, theatre, or related environments is considered an asset.
• Alignment with Village Church’s mission, values, and spiritual leadership expectations.

What Success Looks Like

• Lighting environments that support worship and teaching in a meaningful and distraction-free way.
• Healthy, growing volunteer teams that feel equipped and supported.
• Consistent, high-quality lighting experiences across all Village Church locations.
• Strong collaboration between production, creative, and site leadership teams.

Benefits

Vacation: 3 weeks/year

Salary: $25- $27/hour depending on experience